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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, hkchu@google.com,
	ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi, jhs@mojatatu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: unalias tcp_skb_cb flags and ip_dsfield
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:23:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317115409.2541.6.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109271138.00318.christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>

Le mardi 27 septembre 2011 à 11:38 +0300, Christoph Paasch a écrit :
> On Tuesday 27 September 2011 wrote David Miller:
> > From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
> > Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:37:38 +0300
> > 
> > > However, (as far as I can see) before Eric's change it was 42 bytes long
> > > and now it became 43 bytes.
> > 
> > Then, I suggest that you go buy a pair of glasses. :-)
> 
> Yeah, maybe it's time to... ;-)
> 
> This two-byte hole, is it because "flags" and "sacked" are both __u8 and 
> fields are aligned to 32-bit ?

Not exactly.

Reason for the hole is the following :

struct whatever {
	u8   first;
	u8   second;
	u32  third;
};

"third" field has an alignement requirement of 4 bytes on most arches.

Compiler inserts a 2 bytes hole before "third" to respect this
requirement.

There is no hole between "first" and "second", since second has no
alignment requirement.

sizeof(struct whatever) = 8

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-27  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-23  6:02 [PATCH] tcp: ECN blackhole should not force quickack mode Eric Dumazet
2011-09-23 17:47 ` David Miller
2011-09-23 19:17 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2011-09-24  0:55 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2011-09-25 19:24   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-09-26  1:07     ` jamal
2011-09-26  1:13       ` jamal
2011-09-26  8:26         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-09-26 12:00           ` jamal
2011-09-26 12:44             ` Eric Dumazet
2011-09-27  4:59 ` David Miller
2011-09-27  6:00   ` [PATCH net-next] tcp: unalias tcp_skb_cb flags and ip_dsfield Eric Dumazet
2011-09-27  6:20     ` David Miller
2011-09-27  7:37       ` Christoph Paasch
2011-09-27  8:01         ` Eric Dumazet
2011-09-27  8:08         ` David Miller
2011-09-27  8:38           ` Christoph Paasch
2011-09-27  9:23             ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-09-27  9:28               ` Christoph Paasch
2011-09-27  9:40                 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-09-27  9:51       ` [PATCH net-next] tcp: rename tcp_skb_cb flags Eric Dumazet
2011-09-27 17:25         ` David Miller

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